Xi Jinping

The partial government shutdown, now into its fifth week, is a national crisis. The lack of a border wall — used to justify the shutdown — isn't.

As I have noted, the number of apprehensions at the southern border is down 75 percent since 2000, immigrants are more law-abiding than the native-born, and most drugs come through legal ports of entry.

But don't take my word for it. Rep. Will Hurd, R-Texas, whose district includes 820 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border, says the border crisis is a "myth" and the wall a "third-century solution to a 21st-century problem."

Chief executives have a limited amount of time and energy. While President Donald Trump...

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